On Tue, 2023-08-08 at 23:27 +0000, Pedro Miguel Justo wrote: > > > On Aug 7, 2023, at 01:03, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > > <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > > > > # wget > > http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20220510T034305Z/pool/main/g/git/git-man_2.36.1-1_all.deb > > # dpkg -i git-man_2.36.1-1_all.deb > > > > Then install git normally with apt-get. > > > > Thanks Adrian. > > From there, all good till the grub-install step, which failed: > > pmsjt@itanium:~/grub$ sudo /usr/local/sbin/grub-install /dev/sda > Installing for ia64-efi platform. > /usr/local/sbin/grub-install: warning: cannot open directory > `/usr/local/share/locale': No such file or directory.
Unless you care about localization (which you hopefully don't during debugging), you can safely ignore this warning. > /usr/local/sbin/grub-install: error: efibootmgr: not found. Well, you need to install efibootmgr. Not sure why it isn't installed on your machine in the first place since it's needed for grub-install to update the boot manager settings in firmware and create the "grub" entry. Just install it with: # apt install efibootmgr Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913